Song Essays

Suggest the precautions that a person can take while travelling alone. When we think instantly lyric of wonderful song “Travelling Alone” by Patty Larkin, we can said that travelling alone is wonderful thing. Now, people prefer to travel alone, either all time or occasionally. The passion with which solo travellers speak about their experiences is […]

The greatest French epic and a landmark of medieval literature, The Song of Roland, is the earliest existing example of the song of deeds. It created an enormously popular genre in Europe in the middle ages and after. In its celebration of heroic deeds and feudal chivalric ideals, The Song of Roland reveals much about […]

An interesting aspect of this poem is that it can be read in couplets; though a few of the lines can be dissected separately, to understand the full meaning, the reader must look at the lines in groups of two’s. “I’m out here a thousand miles from my home” is the opening line of the […]

The symbolic use of birds by Faulk has been remarked upon by a critic, who notes that they appear at key moments in the story. In Birdsong, Faulks employs birds to communicate important messages to both the characters and the audience. An instance of this can be seen when a bird becomes trapped and attempts […]

Ironic by Alanis Morissette is nowhere near ironic. It’s more of a surprising serendipity or maybe a huge catastrophe, but definitely not ironic. Irony according to Merriam-Webster, is the incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result; an event or result marked by such incongruity. The subtleness […]

‘Song of Hope’ is a poem written by Oodgeroo Nuccal (Kath Walker) an Aboriginal Australian. The piece is classified as Aboriginal Australian literature. It was published in the 1960’s. The purpose of the text is to give hope in a new beginning after the events involving the racial tension between the Aboriginals and the white […]

“Rolling in the Deep” is a song by an English singer-songwriter Adele from Tottenham, North London, England, UK. Paul Epworth who is a British Music Producer, also wrote the song. He describes Adele’s song “Rolling in the Deep”, as a dark blues-y gospel disco tune. The song “Rolling in the Deep,” features martial beats, pounding […]

The mirror is an ever-changing piece of art. It sees all emotions and watches unconditionally with no cause or concern for its reflection. You can only see the present state of objects; it does not record the past or predict the future. We watch ourselves grow through mirrors throughout our life watching our bodies change […]

It is a well known fact that experiencing war changes people; there is an innocence that is forever lost. In Tim O’Brian’s, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, Mary Anne Bell is an unusual example of the innocence that is lost in war because unlike the rest of the soldiers, she is a woman. Mary […]

At the beginning of T. S. Eliot’ s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, there stands an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno, Canto 27. This epigraph unifies the text and brings, through its imagery and context, a deeper understanding of Eliot’s poem. Prufrock represents both of the characters in this section of the Inferno, […]

Covered countless times, its prevalent use in film, as well as common sampling and references in other media, has resulted in “For What It’s Worth” transforming into an iconic Vietnam-era protest song. In March 1967, it took Buffalo Springfield to number seven in the US singles charts while more importantly inscribing the youth struggles from […]

The song is about a girl that has a crush on a boy in her neighborhood. The girl gives him hints that she likes him. Now, she is waiting for him show signs that he likes her. The girl talks about all of the things the boy can do to show her that he likes […]

The chosen band for this assignment is the Preservation Hall Jazz Band based out of New Orleans. The band’s name comes from Preservation Hall in New Orleans where music is played every Wednesday and Saturday nights. The band is comprised of: Wendell Brunious playing trumpet. David Grillier playing the clarinet. Frank Demond playing the trombone. […]

The song “One,” by Metallica is narrated by the lead singer, James. It is a very strong and hard hitting song. The song deals with the pain of war. It is told in first person and really gives a strong idea of what has happened. This song is very straight forward. The character was in […]

In Tracy Chapman’s song “fast car”, the speaker deals with her reality and longs for a better life situation. By using the metaphor “fast car”, she wants to describe an incisive moment in her life. The woman supports this with words which are associated with this conveyance and talks about the escape from her old, […]

“Song of Green Mountain” is one of the Koryo poems from The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry. Although it was my first time to read it, I previously heard about the poem when I was still attending schools in Korea and knew it was a famous poem from the Koryo period. When I first […]

John Mayer, a composer and real good singer started to learn about his talent by just tending to listen in the radio and hearing blues types of music. He already gained popularity when he was 19 because he used to play in a lot of different bars particularly those bars which play blues music(FamousDJS. com, […]

The text recounts the events of Stephen Wraysford’s life, which took place between 1910 and 1979. Initially employed as a manager in a textile factory, Stephen represents his company during a visit to a French business, where he is tasked with comparing and providing feedback. This experience leads to the formation of meaningful relationships and […]

The impression we get from the final months of war from this extract are that it is long and drawn out process, that memories from home are fading because of the long time they have been in the war, this is shown in the beginning of the extract; “Seemed so long ago that it felt […]

In Scarlet Song by Mariama Ba, the male protagonist Ousmane Gueye is greatly influenced by the various male characters throughout the book. Mariama Ba strategically places certain types of characters in Ousmane’s life so that his character develops as the story progresses, as a way to keep the reader interested. However, Ousmane does not entirely […]

“Red Robin” by Clark Richard “Red Robin,” by Clark Richard is one song, which without fail always makes me cry. My little sister Ann and our father danced to this song at her quince for the father daughter dance. It was originally planned for me to sing the song but I got too emotional in […]

The adaptation of literature works has played a significant role in the history of songwriting. Songs have been recognized as a medium for conveying literary messages in music, making literary works a rich source of ideas for song compositions. Some critics argue that the growing number of adaptations is a betrayal to literary principles, as […]